Modern Contemporary Portrait Jon Imber Massachusetts Artist Signed, O/C, dated 1984, entitled "Ancestors III: Portrait of Naphtali Herz Imber", 66 x 52"
Jon Imber (1950-2014) was born in Baldwin, New York in 1950, and received a BFA from Cornell in 1972. Though abstraction had been the prevailing movement in American Modernism since World War II, Imber was drawn to painting the figure and to the alternate approach being taken by artists associated with the Boston Expressionist movement. So for graduate school, Imber chose Boston University, with an intention to study with Philip Guston and Jim Weeks. Imber has noted that, at the time, “few other places in the country demonstrated a strong interest in the great traditions; no other school offered life drawing as a basis for departure.” Earning his MFA in 1977, Imber studied under and became close friends with Philip Guston, whom he came to consider a “second father.”
Naftali Herz Imber (Hebrew: ????? ??? ??????, Yiddish: ????? ???? ???????; December 27, 1856 – October 8, 1909) was a Jewish Hebrew-language poet, most notable for writing "Hatikvah", the poem that became the basis for the Israeli national anthem.

66 x 52 x 3 in

20 lb